. Annals of some remarkable aërial and alpine voyages, including those of the author : to which are added, observations on the partial deafness to which aerial and mountain travellers are liable, and an essay on the flight and migration of birds, the whole being intended as supplementary to "Researches about atmospheric phenomena" . I fixedto a leathern belt, and sent towards the earth. It was visibleto me on its passage for several minutes ; but I was myselfinsensible of motion from the machine itself during thewhole voyage The earth appeared as before, like anextensive plain, with the same
. Annals of some remarkable aërial and alpine voyages, including those of the author : to which are added, observations on the partial deafness to which aerial and mountain travellers are liable, and an essay on the flight and migration of birds, the whole being intended as supplementary to "Researches about atmospheric phenomena" . I fixedto a leathern belt, and sent towards the earth. It was visibleto me on its passage for several minutes ; but I was myselfinsensible of motion from the machine itself during thewhole voyage The earth appeared as before, like anextensive plain, with the same variegated surface, but theobjects rather less distinguishable. The clouds to theeastward rolled beneath me, in masses immensely largerthan the waves of the ocean. I therefore did not mistakethem for the sea. Contrasted with the effects of the sunon the earth and water beneath, they gave a grandeur tothe whole scene which no fancy can describe. I againbetook myself to my oar, in order to descend; and by thehard labour of fifteen or twenty minutes, I accomplishedmy design, when my strength was nearly exhausted. Myprincipal care was, to avoid a violent concussion at landing,and in this my good fortune was my friend. At JO minutes past four I descended in a spacious mea-dow in the parish of Stondon, near Ware, in 20 The reader will observe that one ol the difficulties oflanding-, when anv wind blows, arises from the concussion olthe car on the ground, and even if that be avoided, the windblowing the balloon, while the car remains on the ground, isliable to drag it along, as the foregoing figure of the landing olM. Lunardi shows, the axis of the machine being onsuch occasions inclined. The same takes place wdien thegrapple catches a tree. Sunday, Sept. 19, 1784, the longest and most variedand interesting voyage as yet undertaken was made- at Paris,in a large cylindrical balloon, like a long spheroid, made totloat horizontally. The three aeronauts were the two
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